GtkFilechooser search in middle of filenames

i92guboj

Hi, everyone

I've been searching around for some days but it seems I am unable to locate something related to the issue at hand. Old uncle google doesn't seem to understand me, of maybe I am the only one bothered by this particular issue in the whole planet.

When I explore any random folder in nautilus or dolphin or any other reasonably modern file manager, I can just type, let's say "random_string", and any file containing that string will be listed, that will include "random_string.foo", "random_string666.bar" but also "666random_string.txt".

But, when I need to open some files using a GtkFileChooser, "random_string" will only match files starting with that string, and not other files which contains that string in the middle, such as "666random_string", which is a pain because I have lots of photos of the stuff in my online shop which sometimes I might want to search base on model, brand, color or whatever else, depending on the situation.

I wonder if there is some hidden config key somewhere where I could change this behavior.

Thanks for any hint you can provide.

Cheers.

alamahant · Advocate Joined: 23 Mar 2019 Posts: 3879

Ah ah i got what you mean.
Like when you are in vlc lets say and you go to Media->Open File
It is called a FileDialog.
In my case with Thunar i can select file by searching any string at any position of the filename.
Maybe try it with Thunar.
Or are you writing a program that implements a FileDialog?
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i92guboj · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 7:03 am Post subject:

dbtx · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Jan 2020 Posts: 117

When I run Geany and File->Open, and looking at ~, typing 'lo' immediately narrows it down to ten or so items including Downloads, lost+found, and minicom.log. I didn't set anything to make it this way, so maybe someone set something else which made yours that other way. There might be a clue in the output of gtk-query-settings or with a search in gnome-extra/gconf-editor. I didn't see anything obvious, so maybe something will stand out on yours. Later on I want to find out what "gtk-file-chooser-backend: NULL" means. edit: also "gtk-xft-dpi: 94208"

i92guboj · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2021 8:38 am Post subject:

Thanks for the pointer. I checked but saw nothing related. gtk-file-chooser-backend picked my attention just like yours but for what I could find in a quick search it seems like deprecated stuff that never really got any important use.

dbtx · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Jan 2020 Posts: 117

I recently found gsettings from gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas which seems to be newer than & independent from gconftool-2 and gconf-editor. Because I've never really tried GNOME 3, it had many unfamiliar defaults such as Cantarell 11 for the common font, which I've since changed because it affects Firefox when running under swaywm. For further comparison, here's gsettings list-recursively and the same thing from gconftool-2.